This book presents clear and concise suggestions for improving writing skills so one can explain opinions, ideas, or analysis of information. The booklet encourages outlining, fleshing out your outline, identifying and writing to the expected audience, and using style, voice, tone, and other writing techniques. Examples are included of good and bad writings with explanations of key points. Pitfalls to be avoided in writing are identified and explained. Stream of consciousness writing is explained. Topics are included for practice, like the following:

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." - Margaret Fuller, Summer on Lakes (1844)

"Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together." -Joseph Joubert, Pensees (1842)